The Pentagon has revealed that Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft will be the recipients of the contract to operate the military’s cloud computing network.

By the time of its completion, which is not expected to occur until June 2028, the massive contract will have cost $9 billion.

U-turning on the Trump Administration’s proposal that one business should be in control of the project, these four companies will participate in the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), which is designed to exchange unclassified, secret, and top-secret data with military personnel across the globe.

The Pentagon’s Cloud Computing Agreement

This amended statement includes Amazon and Oracle, who had previously contested the 2019 award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) to Microsoft.

Since the contract no longer satisfied the requirements of the Department of Defense, it was eventually terminated due to delays.

Bids were opened to all four of the successful firms at this time to ensure parity, but the General Services Administration later revealed that only Amazon and Microsoft met the Pentagon’s standards.

In the future of December 2022, Google, Oracle, Amazon, and Microsoft have been given what is undoubtedly the most prestigious contract there is to hold. Much like a work reference, having the endorsement of the US Department of Defense speaks a thousand things about each of the four organisations with such sensitive and secret data at risk.